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High Fidelity: Uptown (2020)
GREAT episode!
I'm a fan of the movie, albeit I havent seen it again in years, but this was the first episode that felt like it was truly its own moment without too many verbatim nuggets from the original. The bulk of this episode may've happened in the book, which I have not read, but I can't recall whether something similar took place in the movie. BUT THAT'S A GREAT THING because it had its own charm, took its time fleshing out its moments, and every character felt authentic and organic. Many of the other episodes, Zoe Kravitz kinda felt like she was doing a lowkey impression of John Cusack's performance - this finally felt like she struck her own groove while staying true to the character.
A Quiet Place (2018)
Simple concept, great execution. So-called "plot holes" were answered in the film
So many people thinking they're the smartest person in the room, pointing out "plot holes" only to prove that they weren't paying attention.
1. "If shooting them is all it took to kill them then why didn't the military kill them all already?" That's just it - that's not all it takes. Shooting the creatures dead only works when their face opens up sufficiently, which only happens as a result of the high-frequency squelching. That is the realization that the mother has at the end and is why she looks at her daughter and then cocks the gun so confidently before it cuts to black - she now knows exactly how to defeat them if any more of them ever come around. It is quite feasible that the military, prior to the start of the film, never figured out this necessary one-two punch because it may take specific frequencies of squelching to get the creatures' faces to open up - too low being ineffective and too high being outside their frequency range altogether.
2. "Why didn't society focus on soundproofing their homes?" Who knows how quickly the creatures were able to lay waste to human civilization. Depending on how many creatures there were and how voracious their appetite was, they likely killed a TON of people long before anyone figured out that sound was the issue...only to later figure out just how sensitive to sound they were. There are likely other families like the Abbots scattered throughout the world - survivors that each where able to figure out and soundproof their homes to various degrees; but just how much they are able to soundproof their home comes down to the materials they have available...and it's not like they could just hop online and order whatever they needed.
3. "Why didn't the family just move to the waterfall and river?" Good point, BUT it's quite likely that the father only recently discovered it. Notice how the boy was taken aback by the father being able to scream under it and questioning why he didn't bring the girl - it seems to be new information for all of them. Hence the father was likely just showing the boy first as a father-son bonding moment..and was likely the father's plan to make the waterfall the family's next move...and would've if not for everything that happened when the two of them got back to the house.
4. "Why would they choose to have a baby at a time like this?" Reasonable gut-reaction question but do I seriously need to answer this?? People don't always CHOOSE to get pregnant. Sex happens and despite all manner of precautions, sometimes a baby comes along anyway. Methods of contraception are guaranteed to be in short supply after over a year, and if you're expecting a married couple to abstain from sex under the circumstances then haaaaaaa... They may've also been against abortion from a moral standpoint, especially if they didn't find out she was pregnant until quite late into the pregnancy...and also figured that attempting to do it themselves would've been too risky to the mother's health. Think, people.
5. "How could they possibly have electricity?" Easy. Solar. Could the movie have explained this more specifically? Sure. But it's so obviously the only possible answer that it's obvious that that's the answer.
6. "Why couldn't they just keep using sounds to distract the creatures elsewhere, like throwing a rock?" Simply put, they would very quickly get to a point where they'd run out of stuff to throw, and the means to throw things far enough to make it worthwhile. And in the middle of a corn field, it wouldn't make much noise when it landed. Someone brought up setting up speakers in various places to make intermittent sound in various places, but despite having solar power, they would still want to conserve electricity. An elaborate speaker system that the creatures wouldn't quickly learn to ignore would take a good amount of power that they simply do not have.